I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.
Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.
I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.
Every character, for me, is a new discovery.